Benchmarking in Zbrush

[HoriXen]

Behold the birth of the Zbench. This should be implemented into a standalone version for people to test their performance. I tried the preferences>performance>test multithreading and this is what I got:
single - 23.983
threaded - 16.57
This is on a dual Xeon 1.7ghz (256cache) with a gig of rdram. Everyone should try it out and post their results and specs here. Give everyone else an idea of performance and hardware. Go on give it a shot ;)

[azza]

single 16.924
multi 11.654

Dual Xeon 2.40GHz
2 gigs ram

[HoriXen]

Just tested my other system with it:
single - 12.076
thread - 9.98
P4 3ghzC 1gig ddr

interesting... would be nice to see some AMD tests too. Thanks for replies people.

[HoriXen]

Ok I managed to get a friend of mine to test it on his AMD.
single: 11.350998
multi: 11.709999 (AMD has no HT and this is single proc)
amd 2600+ (~2.1ghz)
1gig ddr

[Nemo]

interesting

I tried it on my laptop (p4 mobile 1GHz, 512MB)

Single: 34.529
Multi : 34.537

[Mahlikus The Black]

Single: 13.485
Multi: 13.375999

AMD Atholon XP 2400+ (~2.0ghz)
1GB DDR PC2100

[squeige]

i got single 13.897
multi 9.185
33% increase
dual xeon 2.4 2 gigs ram quadro 4 980xgl

[Frenchy Pilou]

IS that this Zbench prog ? (http://the.zorro.free.fr/zbench.html)
More the number is little more is the perform ?
Pilou

[squeige]

lower values are better or worse?

[joshyy]

P4 : 1.6 Ghz
512Mo Ram

single: 25.077
multi: 29.17

:: hah ::

Pilou lol that seems to be an old atari benchmarker ?_?

anyway, its inside zbrush, in the preferences menu

and lower seems better

[kobi1kobi]

AMD XP 1800+
1GB RAM,

Single: 16.653
Multithreaded: 16.543

wait until get my dual xeon :)

[Cometsoft]

Dual Opteron 248
Single Thread = 9.244
Double = 5.863

[TVeyes]

Single: 11.437
Multi : 9.26
P4 2.8 GHz, 2 GB 400 MHz DDR ram

Hmm, that Opteron looks tasty

[Frenchy Pilou]

:) So is for that I have asked the question :)
This function seems don't exist on the 1.55b :)
Pilou

[Dan R]

Single: 13.62
Multi: 13.57
AMD Atholon XP 2400+ (~2.0ghz)
1GB DDR PC2100

[angstrom]

single 9.87
multi 9.961

AMD Athlon 64 3200+
1G Ram DDR (PC3200)

Al

[DreamWalker]

Single - 15.019
Dual - 10.1

Dual Athlon MP 2000+ (1.67ghz)
1gb PC2100 DDR RAM

[bholtzman]

Hi Frenchy,

The feature is in ZB2. Under Preferences->Performace->Multithreaded.

It's really designed to let you know wheather or not you should use multithreading on your computer. Using multi threading on the wrong computer will hampper performance of ZB2.

[Frenchy Pilou]

I have supposed that :)
Pilou

[willog]

Running a P4 3.0 Ghz processor with 1 Gb Dram

I got the following results ...

Single Thread = 11.078
Multi Thread = 9.09

Multithreading resulted in 17.9% speed increase
Multithreading is recommended for this system.

What I am not quite sure of is if you have to enable multithreading or not. and if so How?

Anyways thanks for starting this thread it was something I been meaning to ask for some time.

[thomey]

Intel 3 Ghz MT
1 gig ram
Single Thread= 11.481
Multi Thread= 9.528

ATI Radeo 9700pro
WinXP

[TVeyes]

Willog : You enable Multithreading in Zbrush by setting Preferences : Performance : MultiDraw and MultiRender. However Zbrush does not remember those settings. Check this (http://www.pixolator.com/zbc-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=4&t=001429) thread for info on how to set the multithreading permanently.

[Polaris30]

Cool stuff!!

Thankyou TVeyes :)

I am going to have my dual opteron soon :) and this info will come in realy handy :)

[jk]

Single Thread = 17.0061
Multi Thread = 10.875

36% increase.

Dual 1.53Ghz Athlon, 2Gig Ram.

[Game Master 770]

14.5 - single
9.5 - threaded

34% improvement

Dual Athlon 2400 (2ghz), 1.5 gigs Ram


I wonder if Hyper-threaded Pentiums get a boost?

[HoriXen]

Thanks for posting everyone, getting some interesting results here. Anyone got an Athon FX or perhaps we can look at more dual opteron results if anyone else has em. They seem to be spankin. Also would be interesting to see a 3.4ghz P4. Yes Hyperthreading boosts the performance Game Master.

[R-Jay]

As there have been 2 other 2.4Ghz AMD's with 1GB of ram I'm adding more info on my system. (Would be intrested to see the others system to see where the differences lie)

single 2.4Ghz AMD
1GB 2100ram
Win XP pro
2 hard disks large both 7200rpm
128MB radeon 9200
Sits on a Shuttle Motherboard VIA chipset

single 13.13
multi 13.04

0.6% increase (I have not idea why there would be any increase at all? will set my system to be multithread though)

[Basura3d]

12.2 single
8.3 multi

Dual Xeon 2.8, 1 gig mem.

[DaveG]

Dual P4 3 Ghz
1 Gb DDR 400

Single - 11.827
Double - 9.599

Dave

[Game Master 770]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR> Dual P4 3 Ghz
1 Gb DDR 400
Single - 11.827
Double - 9.599

Dave
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
this means a standard P4 is no match for Athlon!
My threaded number is also 9.5 but with only a dual Athlon 2400 (~2gig)

[Cezar Souza]

I think that's because memory is a big deal when it comes to Z2... and since you have twice memory as him, I think that's the reason.

[Game Master 770]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR> I think that's because memory is a big deal when it comes to Z2... and since you have twice memory as him, I think that's the reason. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Just tested again with Task Manager open so I can watch Ram useage, and the test hardly uses any Ram at all. It's all processor power. Ram comes into play more when you use it all, and must resort to your slower HD swap.

[dfaris]

Single 11.159
Multi 9.076

3.0 ghz
1 gig ram
GF 5900 256 ram

[DMerchen]

Single 10.097
Multi 10.207
Not recommended. Wonder why? ;) :)

System listed below.

[wchamlet]

Here's my results.

HP Pavilion a445w
P4 3.0E with HT
512MB DDR RAM
64 MB Integrated Graphics

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Not bad for a $800 computer.

[Dickie]

Single: 11.466995
Multi: 9.421

18% speed increse when multithreaded...

Dickie

[Mad Jack]

Single Thread=10.455
Multi Thread=10.543

pentium M 1.6
1Gig ram

[DaveG]

In reply to Game Master :-

I have had Athlon before and after battling with keeping them cool (losing a couple of CPU's) I opted to build my new machine with Intel.

May be slower but far more reliable IMHO.

Cheers!

Dave
:)

[Steve Johnsson]

Single thread = 15.984131
Multi thread = 10.332031
35.2999999% speed increase

On a dual AMD 2000+ with 1024MB of DDR

[HoriXen]

Whoa some real interesting results here. Pentium M 1.6 at 10.xxxx score and it seems that the prescott may be better off in ZB than northwood. Anyone got an Athlon fx 53 or p4 3.4ghz northwood or prescott?

[Cezar Souza]

Yeah, definetively, Z2 seems to like Prescott cores better than Northwood :p
This is my test.

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My system:
P4 3.2 GHz HT ( Northwood core - FSB800/512Kb )
1.0 GB RAM DDR 400
GeForce Fx5200 128 MB


Game Master: Memory is a big deal to Z2. Maybe the test itself doesn't take a lot of memory, but Z2 does. As for myself, I have 1.0 GB RAM and find myself short of memory when using Z2... And also, You should check the latest processor test available in the net. You'd find that the latest P4 have been doing better than Athlons and such.

[matvara]

Hi;
I tested with my new system and got pretty
weard results. I don't know what these numbers
mean, but I read here someone said "the lower
the better. Is there something wrong with my
pc?

Single: 36.7
Multi: 36.5

Athlon 3000+
2 Gig Ram
ATI Radeon 256 Ram

With your result all around 10, do I have a
reason to worry/change any parts?

[Cezar Souza]

Do you think the system is behaving slower than it should? How does it react with other application? Faster or slower? It may be a configuration problem, maybe your processor is working at lower speeds than it could, because something was configured wrong.
If you did the upgrade by yourself, I'd recommend you to check processor clock and multiplier settings in the system bios' setup. If you bought a boxed computer set, I'd recommend you to go to your reseller or techincal support...

[ambient-whisper]

if you have internet explorer open.. winamp.. or other applications that are using your cpu then yes that will affect the test greatly.

the best way to test this is to close all un-neccessary apps/processes after just booting up into windows, and then run the test.

my scores on my laptop are

11.459961
9.325012
18.xx% increase

[matvara]

Thank you Cezar Souza and ambient-whisper for
for your reply! I build the system bit by bit
and I run nothing else in the background than
just Z2, it could be the configuration as you
mentioned. I'll have a look!

Thanks again! :tu:

[HoriXen]

Well I just ordered a new dual G5, so we'll see later how that runs this test in comparison to the other machines posted.

[Polaris30]

WOOT!

I finaly got Multithreading working on this little
1.39 dual Opteron system
1 GB RAM PER Processor (2gigs total ;) )
Windoze XP PRO (finaly LOL)


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I am very happy with results :)

Next month I am maxing out the Processors to the motherboard limmit... and month after I am adding 2 more gigs ram....

I am very happy with the preformance boost...

The single processor benchmark was same as my single processor 2.6 GHZ P4 2 gigs of ram (is was playing winamp tho LOL!)...

The dual processor system is much more responcive than the single processor system...

[TVeyes]

Does anybody have a Centrino CPU? If so I would be keen to hear the benchmark times.

Thanks

[upham]

Hiya.
I've found you can get a small improvement in the multithread test if you make sure your Compact Memory slider is set to the same amount of ram as your computer setup. You'll find the slider in Prefs >Mem subpalette. By default the Compact memory is set to 256meg. Anything over 256meg is written to your hard drive virtual memory file.
Make sure you hit the STORE CONFIG button found in the Preferances > Config subpallete afterwards.

Upham :)

[dareczek]

(sorry for my very poor english)

hi all.

my computer owns Zbrush :D :

single 42.833
multi 42.664

and im working on this machine :(
Duron 800
390 mb ram
GF3 TI 550

...time to upgreade

[Polaris30]

WOW! upham !

Great find!!! nice preformance boost :)

Thanks :)

[Strike]

I missed this thread :)

Here are my result :

Single Thread : 8.390999
Multi Thread : 7.539997

10.1% Increased speed

HP Pavilion t490
Pentium IV 3.0Ghz HT
1 GB 400Mhz DDR

[sirquadalot]

Has anyone tried the new 915 intel chipset with PCI express with the 775 socket yet? Just curious.

[Polaris30]

WOOT!

just installed windows 64 bit for extended systems (free time version for AMD users)

was able to shave off 1 point to the benchmark, but when dealing with high poly models the system seems EXTREAM BOOST when actualy drawing, and rotateing the model! it seems quite a bit faster.

wow! I am very happy with the results... I am going to go and do some rendering tests...

I am pretty happy


UPDATE: OMG half way through typeing this message I tried subdevideing my model..... I got it all the way to 8.5 MILLION polys... my 32 bit partition crashes over 4 million! I am going to try this with other models... this is realy cool!

[sirquadalot]

While here's my results:

Single Thread: 8.794998
Multi Thread: 7.776

11.5% Increase in speed.

HP Pavilion a630n
2.8 ghz P4 HT 520 (775 socket)
PCI express
2.5 GB 400Mhz DDR (2-1 gig Corsair cards, and the 2-256mb cards that came pre installed.)

[aminuts]

Hahaha I knew my poor tired old machine was slow but I think I win the slowest award...sigh. Anyway I thought I would post my results for some laughs.

single: 50.743
multi: 51.122

Pieced together Dell Dimension 500
PIII/Xeon model 7
768mb ram

So you can see why I can't post up much work as it takes me forever to do anything and am still working on projects started when Z2 came out!!:rolleyes:

Hahaha any donations of computers made in this century accepted but don't bring your visa card.:D

[Mentat7]

Has anyone tried the new 915 intel chipset with PCI express with the 775 socket yet? Just curious.
Hey Sirquad!! Yeah I have a PCI Express Mobo with PCI-X video card. I will have to check my test results again but I seem to recall numbers that are very close to yours. I have a 3GHZ P4 HT, 2Gb DDR.

[Shmooel]

I got single thread 16.8789998
Multi thread 10.682
AMD dual Athlon 1800
l gig RAM,
quick question, how much RAM can Zbrush utilize?

[Mentat7]

I got single thread 16.8789998
Multi thread 10.682
AMD dual Athlon 1800
l gig RAM,
quick question, how much RAM can Zbrush utilize?

All the Ram you can give it. ;)

[rgwarren]

Single: 9.9
Multi: 10.0
Sony Vaio S150 laptop 1.6 ghz Centrino / 2mb L2 cache
512mb DDR PC2700

Must be the cache.

[Shmooel]

Thanks Mentat,
May the Juice of Saphu always clear your mind:D

[Mentat7]

OK Finally got around to benchmarking my computer (my PC stats are in my sig below)

Single Thread = 8.175
Multi Thread = 7.332
Total of 11.5% increase in performance


Not bad numbers eh? :D

[Shmooel]

I know this is about benchmarking, sorry to everyone else for this. I just recieved this from Matthew at pixologic

ZBrush 2 can support up to 4 GB of RAM. 2 is generally considered optimal,
however, and will allow mesh densities up to the maximum that ZBrush will
support.

Just thought that this was good info to know. "Set your mind in motion" :lol:

[Polaris30]

Hi!

What Pixologic says is 100% true! this is just my 2 cents worth.


Below is a very Opinionated,Opinion.... Please just take it for a grain of salt, this is from my own personel experiance, and is Overly opinionated. If you use this information for makeing a computer purchace you are insane.
please do your own homework first.

2 GIGs is far from optimal in all my experiances with a 32 bit system... Both of my 32 bit systems still choke on high poly objects with 2 gigs of ram... (over 2 million for choppy responce, and will crash with 4 million or over, with both AMD and Intel chipsets)

The only time I would conciter 2 gigs optimal, is if you are running a 64 bit processor and WINxp for 64 bit extended systems...

Then 2 gigs is AWESOME! I have gotten almost up to 9 million polys...

Plus the only time I have crashed Zbrush in my 64 bit enviornment, is when I had 4 other applications running in the background. I have yet to have it crash from sub-devideing a model, or over clogging the memory with lots of huge textures. "it takes a licking, and keeps on ticking".

My 32 bit systems, all I have to do is over subdevide the mesh and Z crashes sometimes. If I have other applications running in 32 bit , it runs REALY choppy and sometimes crashes when I have too many things in Zbrush memory (lots of textures,or hi-poly models.)


In my experiance , an optimal system is 2 gigs with a 64 bit system (have to have the 64 bit windows) ...
and 4 Gigs on a 32 bit system.

I conciter "optimal", stable, and fast fluid movement... Optimal to me means drawing or sculpting as fast as your creativity lets you, and not waiting for the system to catch up to you. Optimal to me also means, than you can grossly over subdevide a model without running the risk of the program crashing....

IMHO Zbrush "runs good" on a 512 MB system 32 bit
it runs "great" on a 1-2 gigabyte 32 bit system (great for everyday, normal use, for most people this will be great, go for the 2 gigs if you can afford it!!!)
and it runs "Optimaly" on a 4 gig 32 bit system, or a 2 gig 64 bit system.(Perfect for all use, especialy a "Profesional" enviornment that requires no-limmitations.)
and it is "GODLIKE" on a 64 bit SMP system with 4 gigs of ram and a 64 bit OS.(if you want to go "WEEEEeeeeee!" and giggle uncontrollably every time you use Zbrush... if God uses a computer he probably has Zbrush 2 and this type of system.)

as I stated before, I have not been able to crash the 64 bit system with Zbrush when running it correctly (no programs running in background or on other threads in background).

The only problem is only a few other software packages even run on the 64 bit OS. I have to have 2 computers running to keep my workflow up....

Haveing 2 systems on a LAN can be pretty sweet sometimes, you can do things on 1 system without effecting the other system... I can be Zbrushing on 1 system, and quickly model something in wings on the other system, or check my E-mail, surf for refrence photos, Keep a IRC chat client open while I work, Run winamp to listen to music, download Linux ISO's, Run tutorial Zscripts on 1 system while I try to follow it on the other system,( realy makes learning Zbrush fast, you can instantly try something out without stopping the Zscript!as it dose something, you can mimic it at the same time!),... ECT.... insted of haveing 2 monitors for 1 system.... I have 2 monitors with a system behind each of them.... all the nonsense little tasks I usualy have running in the background, I keep restrained to the 32 bit system... I leave the 64 bit system open for Zbrushing, or for rendering animations (64 bit SMP ROCKS with truespace, There is a very significant BOOST in the 64 bit OS).

With a LAN it is like haveing 1 big system! you share the same work folders... you can even run linux on 1 system, and have windows on the other and still share files and devices like printers, and wacom tabletts... (See SAMBA)

anyways.. My suggestion is 4 gigs for 32 bit systems, and 2 gigs for 64 bit systems.

I have Opteron, for all I know none of this is true for Itanium... I have never tried the itanium... for all I know it could be better even.

[paq]

ingle Thread = 9.573
Multi Thread = 7.835

P4 2.8C@3.4 - 243 FSB - 1 Gig DDR4000

[aminuts]

Woo hoo!!!!

I have finally entered this century with a little power

my old dinosaur :
single: 50.743
multi: 51.122

my new rocket:
single: 7.014
multi: 6.24296
10.9% increase
--------------------------
3.6 pent w/ht 800fsb
4gb ddr2 533hz
256mb pci expressx16 radeonx800xt
raid 0 2x160gb hd
250gb ata hd
xp pro sp2

[Micheloupatrick]

Single: 8.021
Multi: 4.893

dual G5 2.5 GHz - 4.5 gigs RAM - GeForce 6800 Ultra

[chadtheartist]

Thanks for posting those Mac numbers. Dual on the Mac seems to be mighty impressive.

[Micheloupatrick]

The guys at Pixologic seem to have done an extremely good job at optimizing zBrush' code for the G5 (it was worth the wait!).

[tricecold]

here are my breath taking results from my ancient pc after i get my high-end laptop stolen from my car.

Single Thread: 56,780
Multi Thread: 56,634

Spec
P3 500MHZ
256Mb Ram
NVIDIA TNT 16 MB

[tricecold]

Also would like to add that with Chamlets $800 worth HP Pavilion a445w and Rgwarrens 1.6 centrino with only 512 MB ram made me rethink about how much money do i have to pay for a decent performace. There is sth funny goin on in the CPU business and they are not telling us...

[HoriXen]

Just got Zbrush 2 licensed on my dual G5 finally, here are my results.
Single 7.8s
Dual 4.6s

System:
Dual G5 2.5ghz
2gb Ram
GF6800

I have my compact mem set to 2GB for this test.
ZB2G5.jpg

[The Namek]

No hyperthreading so
single : 11.1

System :
AMD 3000+
1024 ddr ram
geforce 6600 GT (agp)

[Basura3d]

Dual Xeon 3.4 2gig mem
Single :7.259
Dual: 4.737

[souleat]

haha-

my old cpomputer
500 Mhz PII 256 Ram
74 single thread !!!!!

my athlon 1,25 1Gb ram
24 single thread!
:cry: :cry: :cool: :rolleyes: :)
its time to get some new machine!!!

[wenna]

Just got upgraded some...

single thread=7.993999
Multi thread=7.14

Multi Threading resulted in a 10.6 % increase
Multi Threading is recommended for this system.

I have P4-3 ghz, 800 FSB
1 G memory (will get 3g more as I can)
running XP Home Edition
GeForce PCX- 5300 graphics card

ummm.. that's all I can recall at the moment..
Just thought I'd add this to an old thread as I'm really thrilled with the increase in preformance of my "new" comp. and couldn't keep it to myself.. LOL

[sirquadalot]

I wonder how the new dual core pentiums are going to do...4 threads each...:D

[HoriXen]

Anyone have results on a newer pentium-m like a 2ghz or perhaps the turion? I'm interested in getting a little results for mobile computers here. Trying to determine which would be the best laptop for ZB.

Thanks to everyone that has posted thus far.

[kelvin273]

144028.jpg
FujitsuSiemensComputer
FSC Amilo1425,Pentium-M755(2,0GHz),1g-RAM,ATI9700Mobility128,WinXPHome
Here is the desired Benchmark:
ZB2_Performance_FSCAmilo1425_Pentium-M755(2GHz)_1gRAM_ATI-9700Mobility128_WinXP_Home.gif

Greetings
kelvin273

[HoriXen]

Thanks a lot Kelvin. It looks like the pentium-M does pretty well too.
Now if we can get some Pentium D and dual core AMD results from anyone, we'll have a complete comparison. Anyone else that wants to post their results is welcome, the more the merrier.
Xen.

[HoriXen]

Sweet. Looks like those dual cores are pretty heavy duty.

[abe_Tamazir]

Single 11.83
Multi 11.92

p3 2.8Ghz 2 gig

[sirquadalot]

Thanks Carthic.

[lovecrafty]

Hm, here's my result:

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Another AMD Athlon64 X2 4400, 2.2 GHz
2Gig Ram
ASUS AN8-SLI Deluxe
Abit ATI X800XL

After figuring out to NOT use nVidias updated IDE or SMBus drivers this thing is working great. I'm just using the stock XP SP2 drivers for the bus at the moment, do you think that's why I lag Carthic? The processor seems stable at 2.3 GHz, but why bother. I'll have to watch the temp with both cores pegged to the limit rendering fancy-pants Mental Ray SSS and final gather to determine if I want to push my luck!

-Chris

[cabal]

hallo from kiel, another result.
dualhead amd opteron 1.6gh
gforcefx500
2wd raptor 10000rpm

dual_opteron.jpg

[Heggiiman]

Here is a nifty little program if you are worried about the extra heat from overclocking.

*edit* Sorry forgot the link :confused:

http://www.benchmarkhq.ru/english.html?/hmonitor_e.html

[pixelsoul]

Singele Thread : 22.533
Multi Thread : 22.941010

Multi Threading resulted in 1,8 % speed decrease

*Strange i thought before it recommended to turn it on?

I have p4 3 Ghz 1 gb ram.

How does it count is lower better? :confused:

[lovecrafty]

Carthic,

Ah ha! :) An extra 300 MHz on two cores might explain the difference, that's a good overclock. I notice two opterons get the same increase in performance, I wonder why the multithreading limit is a 37% boost. Does that mean Zbrush runs two threads, one more computationally intensive than the other? Maybe one core manipulates vertex data and the other texture data, hm. When I get home tonight I'll have to do the test with the CPU monitor running. :p I wonder what the boost is for rendering, I think only bucket rendering, such as in mental ray, really takes advantage of multiple processors/network rendering.

Such complicated stuff! Pixolator is a smarty-pants to take advantage of multithreading, but then we already know he kicks butt. :tu:

[ambient-whisper]

Single Threaded= 8.521
Multi Threaded= 5.344

Multithreading resulted in 37.2% speed increase.

system specs:

intel pentium dual core 820 (2.8 ghz)
geforce 7800 gtx
1gb ram ( for now ).

[fattkid]

Single Threaded = 9.210938
Multi Threaded = 5.861328

36.299999% speed increase

Specs.......

Dual Opteron 248 (2.2Ghz)
Tyan K8WE
4gb 3200 RAM
Geforce 6800 Ultra

[pixelsoul]

AMD 3500+
2 GB DDR Corsair..
WinXP x64 pro

Im getting extra
2 gb ram but i doubt, the benchmark will get any better..

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[yoogy]

P4 HT 3,4 Ghz
1 GB DDR2 Ram in Dualchannel
Ati Radeon x300 128 MB PCIxpress
Maxdata

Its like a Rocket :D

Bench.jpg (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:zb_insimg%28%2720495%27,%27Bench.jpg%27,1,0%2 9)

[billrobertson42]

HP Pavillion zv 6000 (notebook)
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ :)
512 Mb Ram :(
ATi Radeon express 200 M :|

Single threaded 10.53

[aminuts]

it probably won't pixelsoul until zb has a 64bit version.

thought I would repost mine since I have way more crap sucking resources now than when I first got this computer just for kicks to see the differences

setup:
3.6 pent w/ht 800fsb
4gb ddr2 533hz
256mb pci expressx16 radeonx800xt
raid 0 2x160gb hd
250gb ata hd
xp pro sp2 _________

previous:
single: 7.014
multi: 6.24296
10.9% increase

right now:
single 7.17
multi:6.32
11.7% increase

not bad loss but have at times seen both in the sixes can't quite seem to break 6.1 in multi but reckon if I overclocked it I could....but this puppy has to last a long long time.

[lemonnado]

Intel P4 1.9GHz 1GB.... - about 23 -.. cough cough....
Weird that it's about as fast as pixelsouls old system with 3GHz...
New system arrives this week... har har har...
Lemo

[DarK ZanatoS]

running it in my laptop:
fujitsu siemens amilo
intel centrino 2.00 ghz
nvidia geforce 6800
2 gb ram

single thread-8.848
multi thread-8.562

resulted in minus 0.9% speed increase

multi thread no recomended

[MASTERSHOKHAN]

:D You won't belive my Dell 8400 Dimension ( please customize your Dells )

p4 3.4
1gb of ram ( will upgrade to 2gb )
128 ati express card

single: 7.475
Multi: 6.652
11% increase

and My computer buddies laughed at me for buying a Dell for CG work. I got a waranty and tech support :lol: sukas

[MACMaN]

Single Thread = 15.148438
Multithreaded = 9.734375
And a 35.7 % increase in speed...

My system is an XP Pro ver2002 SP2
Proc: Dual AMD Athlon MP 1.8 Ghz (or 2200)
Mem: 1 GB
Video: NVIDEA GeForce 6800 GT

That's it! I was wondering if I should spend the $700 on new procs and another gig of RAM and after seeing these scores my little three year old is starting to show her age! Time for an upgrade!

[pixelsoul]

A Mac man who runs windoos box? :lol:


Single Thread = 15.148438
Multithreaded = 9.734375
And a 35.7 % increase in speed...

My system is an XP Pro ver2002 SP2
Proc: Dual AMD Athlon MP 1.8 Ghz (or 2200)
Mem: 1 GB
Video: NVIDEA GeForce 6800 GT

That's it! I was wondering if I should spend the $700 on new procs and another gig of RAM and after seeing these scores my little three year old is starting to show her age! Time for an upgrade!

[MACMaN]

I didn't think in terms of "MAC" as MACintosh. When I created the log in name I was thinking in terms of my initials.

It's brought me nothing but heart ache! :(

I prefer to think of it as MAC as in MAC Daddy. Hee hee :lol:

[GregoryDF]

I made a test with my school computer :
Dell Precision 380
P4 HT 3.6GHz
2 GB of RAM
Win x64
Ati FireGL V3100

benchmarkZbrush.jpg

[lemonnado]

Dual dual-core Opteron 280
Single thread 8.14
Multi threaded 5.22
And that's while VUE5 is rendering a highres picture in the background....
Multi threaded as the only task on the box: 5.02
AMD Rocks!

[Basura3d]

Hmmm, was expecting more of a dualcore Opteron... My Dual Xeon 3.4 got Single :7.259 and Dual: 4.737 and it's almost a year old... Are you running xp64 OS? We are gonna buy new computers at work and I want the best performance possible...

[ambient-whisper]

thats what ive always said. those benchmarks we see on websites are useless unless you try them on things you actually use. in photoshop and zbrush. intel kicks a lot of butt. so i stick with it. plus its much cheaper too.

[spaz8]

I really wanna see what numbers the new G5 Quad system puts up...

[Ti22]

Yeah I wanna see how the new G5 Quad core does, Zbrush seems to run very nicely with macs

anyways rite now I am modelling a 800k model I want to divide once more but it will become 3.2 which is beyond my system's limit is there anything I can do? ( i tried dividing but it becomes so slow)

I am using P4 3.2 1GB of RAM Radeon 9700 pro.

[aminuts]

throw in another gig of ram.

[lemonnado]

Nope, running Win32 right now. The 64bit version has to many features....
And ZBrush did not use all 4 cpu's. Only two. And AMD does not support 'Hyperthreading'... VUE5 and XSI5 are flying on the box. Came down from 23hours rendertime to 30-45 minutes... I'm looking forward to the XSI5 Linux test I'll do next week....
Lemo

[Ti22]

Hey guys,

Just out of curiosity does Zbrush have hardware acceleration? no one seems to be talking much about Graphics card here only CPUs and Memory

how can the viewport move around so fast without hardware acceleration even with 2m or even higher poly objects.

[aminuts]

ZMagic?

[lemonnado]

PixolDust driven GPU code!

[spaz8]

Hey this ones for Aurick i guess, just wondering if ZB would make use of the 4 cores in the new g5 quad, or if it would just see 2?

obviously a g5 quad with all the ram it can hold would be a great machine for ZB, assuming its not wasting 2 of its 4 procs.

[aurick]

Well, I just built myself a new computer, and here are my results:

Single Thread= 8.724976
Multi Thread= 5.5487

37.1% increase

Pretty sweet!

It's an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (AMD's dual core line) with 2 GB of Corsair TWINX PC3500 RAM on the Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard (both banks of RAM have their own bus when using TWINX RAM) and dual 74GB Raptor 10,000 RPM drives.


Regarding the question about quad processors or quad core machines, I don't think ZBrush will support that. I'll have to check, though.

[cclyde@velocitegroup.com]

Hi all. multitest.jpg

[lemonnado]

5.12 on my dual Opteron 280 box. ZB uses two procs. Not more. And to make that permanent you have to edit it into the startup file. Or you have to set it every time it starts.

Cheers
Lemo

[pete330]

well woah! >> the tool saves to 361MB file <<

i don't own zb yet so i don't know much of anything... but really?! that seems really high even for a 5mil poly model. is it the ztl format - can anyone shed some light? i was about to buy another drive but maybe i need a bigger one!

[billrobertson42]

It's an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (AMD's dual core line) with 2 GB of Corsair TWINX PC3500 RAM on the Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard (both banks of RAM have their own bus when using TWINX RAM) and dual 74GB Raptor 10,000 RPM drives.


Where's the drool emotiocon? :tu: :tu:


Regarding the question about quad processors or quad core machines, I don't think ZBrush will support that. I'll have to check, though.

Sure it will! Just run two instances. One on each half of your 30" cinema display. :D

BTW, Thanks for bringing this thread back. I upgraded the RAM in my notebook and I want to see if it makes a difference in the numbers. (coming soon).

*edit* the old score was 10.53 and the new score is 10.1. Probably not enough of a difference to say that the ram mattered for this test. It goes without saying though that zbrush is much happier now.

[DanRoberts]

5.12 on my dual Opteron 280 box. ZB uses two procs. Not more. And to make that permanent you have to edit it into the startup file. Or you have to set it every time it starts.

Cheers
Lemo
wow ... i wondered why mine was reseting every time i restarted ZB :rolleyes:

[Buckie]

Just about to put my new machine together...

Dual 280 Opterons
Tyan Thunder K8WE
4Gb Corsair ECC reg memory
Quadro FX 3450

Are you telling me ZBrush won't see 2 of the CPU's...:eek:

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

[WENDEX2112]

:( This is what I got.

Single:- 19.589996
Multi Thread:- 19.343

My wifes laptop as my pc died 6 months ago.

AMD 1.6GIG
Radion 64 mb
256mb of ram

Please stop laughing.:lol:

[Giantsun]

Dunno if this would work under MAC but on the PC coming down in the SUB just before saving makes a big disk space diference.

[Micheloupatrick]

ZBrush is only using 2 processors, at least on the Mac.
Here are the results on my Quad G5:

Single Thread=7.764999
Multi Thread=4.45

[lemonnado]

Buckie, don't panic. I have a dual screen setup. Two cheap LCD's. And ZBrush is tearing through renders and moving 4Mio slobs of geometry and editing them is a breeze. And while 2 Proc's are busy, you can do other cool stuff in parallel. I am rendering scenes with Mental ray and am modeling with ZBrush. 4*100% CPU and it's still screaming. You WILL use the CPU's.

I had the choice between an Apple and a PC and due to the fact that the Apple box is more powerful, but OSX is not using the 64Bit mode for anything with a Graphical User Interface I went with the PC. I have XP32/64 in dual boot and am slowly migrating stuff to the 64Bit side. In 64Bit mode the box is even faster for 32Bit apps. Another 10-20%.

In any case. When you have the box and you have more than 2GB then go and add /3GB to this line in the boot.ini in the root directory:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /3GB

Windows is grabbing 2GB for XP (I'd like to get my hands on the retard who decided that...). And due to various compatibility issues the system has anything between 2.5 and 3GB available. Soooo your app is getting only a little bit of memory and cant allocate a CHUNK. with the 3GB switch Windows XP is settling for 1GB and your app can finally enjoy 2GB as designed. IN 64Bit mode however the app can really get up to 4GB in 32Bit mode. But I have not verrified that...

I settled for a ATI FireGL 7800 which runs like a clockwork. I don't have the driver nightmares other Nvidia folks have. Worked out of the box and continues to work out of the box. Maybe NVidia has settled doen as well... I did not opt for any dual card setups as they tend to be slower than the single card setups except for Mega complex opengl stuff. Which I fail to see on my horizon...

Cheers
Quad Lemo


PS:Wendex... before I bought this system I had 28 something with my old P4...

[--E--]

single - 7.969
multi - 5.084

% - 36.2

Dell Dimension 9100 here at work
pentium D 3 Ghz
3 GBs of ram
1 sata 200 GB hd

[lear]

single: 45.139
multi: 45.05
celeron 900MHz
384 MB RAM

yeah yeah. i know...

[--E--]

hey lear I am impressed zbrush even lets you make a sphere.

I am curious how many polys you have been able to create/ handle before it crashes on you?

[lear]

limit is 1 million polies. i'm wrestling with this one here.:mad:

[kkv]

single: 11.764999
Multi : 11 . 822
Multithreading not recommended on the system

Laptop Inspiron 5150,, 3.06 ghz,, 512 mb RAM
Graphic card nVidia geforceFX Go 5200
kkv

[cclyde@velocitegroup.com]

Pete330
Don't panic about file size.
Although I know absolutely nothing about the file
structure of ZB2 tools, 5.25 million polys - each holding
a three dimensional co-ord, is probably a lot of data.
Now after that brilliant deduction - you will very seldom
ever need to create a tool that size unless you're planning on
creating a model (BTW tools are models without material and
texture, light and stage) that has such detail that you'll be
sculpting each molecule.
Keep in mind that the larger the tool/model the farther away
the viewer must be to see it all. The farther the viewer -
the less detail they see. So unless you want a lot of data
that will only slow down rendering and animation, most
models will not exceed 100MB.

[cclyde@velocitegroup.com]

Pete330
This is a self portrait WIP that is 1,000,000 polys.
There is enough geometry for pores etc. and the
tool size is 68MB.
I am new to ZB and when I started this model I did'nt
know you could divide individual areas of a model.
So to get the detail I wanted I just kept dividing the whole
model, hence the 1,000,000 polys.
Hope this helps.

Chris.jpg

[pete330]

hey thanks cclyde. yeah a 5mil poly model is a lot of data. 361Mb just seemed big to me. i probably won't need that detailed of a model any time soon but... anyway thanks for the info!

[GhosTDoG]

- Athlon 64 X2 4800 Toledo (Dual Core)
- 2 GB Ram

multi.jpg



(http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/attachment.php?attachmentid=27799)

[Evan Gaugh]

-Athlon 64 Fx-60 4800 Dualcore
-2gigs Ram

Single 7.4
multi 4.3

[Basura3d]

4.3! Now we are talking! Wonder wich cpu will break the 3.x barrier :)

[jit_gohil]

Mine:

12.683 Single
12.609 Multithread

AMD Athlon 2600+
1 Gig PC2700 DDR Ram

Time to upgrade, methinks!

[John Hoffman]

Not bad for a Laptop.

zPerformance.jpg

Alienware :tu:
P4 3.6 GHz
2 Gb RAM


.

[0bz]

Single Thread = 7.074997
Multi Thread = 4.492

Multithreading resulted in 36.5% speed increase.

Multithreading IS recommended for this system.

Intel Xeon 3.4ghz
2GB RAM
Quadro FX 4500.

[jasonjdgr]

I tested my Averatec C3500 Tabelt PC

Single Thread - 16.986023
Multi Thread - 16.750977

AMD Atholn XP-M 2200+
512 Ram

[Basura3d]

Got my new computer today, a dual Opteron 285 (4 threads) and did the benchmark...

Single = 7.461
Multi = 4.754

Not as fast as I expected but Zbrush only uses 2 threads wich is only one processor on a dualcore cpu. At least I can render my displacements in Maya at the same time I doodle in Zbrush :)

/Basura

[pbman]

jus tested minedemo out an got this
s=9.702999
m=6.068
37.4% speed increase

on a amd 3800+ dual core
2gb ram

[dougt]

Single = 4.75
Multi = 3.125

[dougt]

Single = 4.75
Multi = 3.125

Mac Pro 2.66 with 2 gigs of RAM.
Running Windows XP Pro via Apple's Boot Camp.
I can honestly say that I emptied my wallet and filled my shorts!!
Now, I'm off to run screaming into the night!!! :rolleyes:

[guality]

Single = 5.806
Multi = 3.631

Core 2 Duo E6400 (2x 2,13GHz)
2GB PC2-5300 RAM
GF6800GT

[Basura3d]

I'm just waiting for the core2duos to come to notebooks so I can buy one... Would be a shame to run 32 bit just when Vista is comming so soon... dougt, are those scores from the winxp or mac version of zbrush?

[Hukt 0n Fonix]

Single Thread: 9.064972
Multi-thread: 5.5

39.299999% speed increase.

Pentium D, Dual Core 3.2Ghz
1 GB Ram
Geforce 6600 GT OC

2Gb of RAM and an ATI x1900xt coming soon, should spice things up :P

[dougt]

The stats are from Zbrush on XP Pro. Unfortunately Zbrush doesn't work on the Intel Macs untill 2.5 is released as a Universal Binary. From what I've read, 2.5 will be able to handle quad processors (or more?) and all the ram you can throw at it. Let the bells ring out and the pigeons fly!!!:D

[Jan Davidsson]

single- 4,091
multi -2,679
34,5% increase

on

Core 2 Duo E6600@3,1Ghz (30% OC, not maxed out by far but im not greedy)
2Gb 6000

New mini workstation, must say that Core 2 Duo 6600 is amazing, soo easy to OC anyone can do it and the price is very good. Stable also.

[TVeyes]

Single = 5.52
Multi = 3.72
32.5% speed increase

Two quad Xeon 5345s at 2.33 Ghz (of course using just 2 of the 8 cores)
2 GB DDR II at 667 Mhz (actually 4 GB but running in sparring mode)
Windows XP Pro

Needless to say my credit card cried out in pain and snapped into several pieces before vanishing in a puf of smoke. I have also suddenly developed a taste for pasta with clear sauce, i.e water. Yummy.

[reg18]

i new to zbrush, i have a labtop and did the test.
Single Thread = 10.14
Multi Thread = 10.27

is this good or bad, and if its bad how can i improve it???
thanks

[Aumakua]

Single Thread=5.389
Multi Thread=3.471
35.59% speed increase
Two dual core Xeon 5140 (2.33Mhz)
4 GB ram 667Mhz / 7900GTX
Raptor 150GB/10k rpm for swap files

[willbrown1]

MacMini core duo 1 intel 1.67ghz

2 threads: 11.8
1 thread: 19.3

38% increase

[LilRayRay]

single: 8.658
Multi: 5.453

37% increase. Not bad for a sucky dual core

Pentium D 820
2 gb 667 mhz RAM
Geforce 8800 GTS

[patricksharpe]

single thread = 9.913
multi thread = 9.994999

Multithreading resulted in -0.8% speed increase.

Multithreading is not recommended for this system.

AMD 3200 Winchester (pre Venice core) 64 bit single core (scores better stock than the 3200 venice, although the venice can be OC'd to a better degree than the winchester)

3 gig low latency Mushkin 400 FSB ram in dual channel mode

Gigabyte mother board GA-K8NS Ultra-939

AGP ATI Radeon X850 (Ocd to XTPE timings)

My system is just turning 2 years old and is rock solid (although not as powerful as whats out on the market its been a sick performer when concerning Zbrush, Maya, XSI, After effects, Photoshop, Corel painter, C4D, CAD, VUE, etc ) I will admit that the Core Duos are a thing of wonder for the moment, but dont count out AMD just yet. I hear the OctaCoreTM is soon to be announced :)~


PS: (just kidding)

[royalwin]

3.956
2.56

35.2% increase

Gateway FX 530XM factory overclocked Quad core 2.66GHz running at 3.2 GHz
2 GB Ram
7900 GT

Win XP pro

[yalbaiz]

Single = 7.456
Multi = 6.605

11.4% Increase.

Intel Dual Core P4 3.2 GHz with 2 GBs RAM Windows XP Pro 32 bit.

Even with these numbers ZBrush crashes when I reach 4 Million+ polys.

[pete@peteroneillphotography.co]

Single Thread = 5.132

Multi Thread = 3.235

36.9% increase

Intel Duo 6600@2.4GHz 4Gb ram

Vista x64 ultimate

[mbrunsteig]

Salut à tous !

single thread = 8.9519
multi thread = 5.011963
speed increase = 44%

Mac OS X version 10.4.8
Power Mac 2 x 3 Ghz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Ram 4 Go 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
Video Card ATI Radeon X1900 XT

[kelvin273]

Breaking the 3 barrier single- 4,091
multi -2,679
34,5% increaseomg! - this is amazing :eek:

Since the x64 version of ZB2 is out here the benchmark done on a (old) HP8200 with Windows XP x64 - Professional (5.2.3790) SP1
Prozessor: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.40GHz
L2 Cache: 2.048 KB
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400

In the afternoon i'll test it on the DELL490!
Here the benchmark for Dell 490: 2.66GHzXeon5160,Raid1-WD10k, 8g, FX4500, XP64Pro:
http://www.zbrush.de/images/uploaded4/user_img-ctYQQOogda_ZB2_Dell490_Xeon5160_XP64.jpg
Not too bad for the money.:)

Cheers
kel
.

[Elixir]

P4 3.0Ghz HT
1 Gig dual DDR
ATI X700 pro

Vista 64bit
ZBrush 64bit

Single 8.228
Multi 7.191

Increase of 12.5%

If lower is better then I am quite happy with my numbers. My machine is old by most standards. BTW I found that the 64bit version of ZB loads and unloads so much quicker on Vista64 than it did on XP pro 32bit.

[bls]

single 8.872
multi 5.641
36.4% speed increase

Athlon 64X2 4400
4GB ram

[Reuben]

Does ZBrush only use 2 threads ?, i guess so cause task manager shows about a 50% useage when doing the test, if so, its a pitty but i'm happy with a 32% increase rather than none ;)

My scores are approx - Single 8
Multi 5

Reuben

[lemonnado]

Yup. Two it is. Till the 15th. Then things will change.
Lemo

[sirquadalot]

I just ran the Benchmark test, and WOW!!!!!!!! The speed increase from ZB 2.0 to ZB 3.0 on the same system is awesome! It has more than doubled!!! Awesome!!!!:cool: :tu: :tu: :tu:

[billrobertson42]

Or the measurement itself has changed...

[sirquadalot]

Actually I just ran through some quick subD tests and I'm hitting close to 9 million polys. Thats about double what I could do in ZB 2.0

[yalbaiz]

Single=4.922999
Multi =3.953999 :D

Increase of 19.6%


P4 Dual Core 3.2 Ghz WINXP

Nice.

[sirquadalot]

I did start running into some subD issues when I tried to go to the next level...but ZB did not crash. I tried the HD geometry thing though and just after it said preparing 43.1 million poly model, it crashed. I've only been playing for about 10 minutes though.

[mouse_art]

The first time i tried HD, it crashed too , but as i used exactly the same steps as in the wiki described, it worked then.
I coul'd go up to 130M HD polys, but had first to wait 1-2 minutes as i coul'd draw a stroke, it's nice but i'l think i go no further than 40-70M. :P

Make Sure the Mem Settings ar good, and do not use a too high MaxPolyperMeshDraw settings, because HD tries to display then so much.

[LY]

At 9 million polygons, sculpting speed is remarkable.
But undo takes like 30 seconds ;)

[sirquadalot]

I am really glad I took a 4 day weekend...;)

[onrew]

sigle 12.882
multi 12.658
17%
AMD 2600+ 1.83G 512RAM

[sirquadalot]

I think that's why I crashed the HD Geometry. I ramped the max poly mesh to 50! I was trying to break it.;)

[Dirty Deeds]

Howdy.

Mac Pro
2 Dual Core 3Ghz Xeons
4 GB RAM

Z2 results:
single: 4.4
multi: 2.9

Chomping at the bit to throw down on Z3 when I get the email.

Ian

[rstew526]

Single: 5.548096
Multi: 3.521973

AMD Athlon 4200 64 X2
Win XP

[Elixir]

I am runnignVista 64bit

When I installed ZB3 it put it in the Program Files (x86) which means Vista thinks that the install is only 32 bit. I hope there is a plan to release a 64bit version. I know it made a huge difference when I got ZB2 64bit.

Anyone else using 64bit have any idea on whether it 32bit or not?

[rgwarren]

Dual XEON 3.8 GHZ 2MB L2 - Windows XP - 4 GB RAM

ZBrush3
Single = 4.29
Multi = 2.25
Util = 47%

ZBrush2
Single = 6.50
Multi = 4.39
Util = 32%

Seems like Z3 likes multi-processors much more than Z2. Good news!

[tez]

Zbrush 3
zb3score.JPG

Zbrush2
zb2score.JPG

[royalwin]

speedy.jpg

[The Namek]

multi.jpg (javascript:zb_insimg('56196','multi.jpg',1,0))

[mouse_art]

My Timings are not so good, because my CD2 6600 is still not OC.

But it's insane, if i compare ZB3 to ZB2A, ZB2A was at 8M sluggish(dotting), now in ZB3 i'ts at 25.1M the same, but without dotting. (17M is smooth, if the brush size is not to big)).


And there is the hidding feature...heh don't need it till 16-17M raw polygons. heh


Edit: Specs are:

Vista x64 Ultimate
CD2 6600(not OC)
4Gb SuperTalent 800 4-4-4-3-8
2 10k rpm HDD(single mode)

[tez]

My Timings are not so good, because my CD2 6600 is still not OC.

But it's insane, if i compare ZB3 to ZB2A, ZB2A was at 8M sluggish(dotting), now in ZB3 i'ts at 25.1M the same, but without dotting. (17M is smooth, if the brush size is not to big)).


And there is the hidding feature...heh don't need it till 16-17M raw polygons. heh


Edit: Specs are:

Vista x64 Ultimate
CD2 6600(not OC)
4Gb SuperTalent 800 4-4-4-3-8
2 10k rpm HDD(single mode)
The e6600 is a dam good chip over clocked or not. :cool:

[calum5ZB]

O.k so I guess I need an upgrade lol
mp1.jpg

[nehumanuscrede]

Single: 5.292997
Multi: 3.563


32.7% Increase


AMD FX-60 Dual @ 2.6ghz
3GB Ram

[mike0006]

Single = 6.5219
Muilti = 4.4099

AMD Athlon X-2 3800+ 2 Ghz
2 GB Ram
Geforce 7300
Windows XP SP2

I'd really like to see someone with the dual quad-core Xeons post up their scores. Right now I'm pricing out a new computer and am very torn as to whether is should get the E6700, Q6600, or 53xx processor. Not too mention how much Ram I should get. I'm think 4GB right now, but mabey 8 GB would be a noticable difference?

[royalwin]

I can't recommend more highly the machine I got from Gateway. I am very pleased. It's an overclocked quad core backed by the warrenty, running at 3.2. Earlier you can see my posts for ZB2 and ZB3. They are (I believe) the fastes anyone has posted in either, and the whole thing was $3500 out the door with a 19" flat screen and a 7900. I'll be upgrading the video card in the not too distant future to a DX-10 card for stuff for work and that should smoke even more. My 2 cents.

[mike0006]

Well that eleminates the e6700. I'm still really curious how a dual 53xx Xeon stacks up against the q6600 though. I'm really finding it difficult to decide. It's hard to find benchmarks that are comparable in the kind of applications I use.

[tonytrout]

Single = 6.125
Muilti = 3.66

AMD Athlon X-2 3800+ 2 Ghz
2 GB Ram
Geforce 7900GT
Windows XP SP2

Crashed after running the test too. I will have to wait for an upgrade in 2008 and hopefully there will be some cheaper quad core machines then,

[ArtByBpc]

I just got this at work. Awesome!

AMD X2 3800
2g of ram
Windows XP (32bit)

I am maxing out at around 8-9 million (WITHOUT HD GEO). Is there a way to turn on multithreading or is it on by default? Also would running on XP 64 and upping my ram to 4g allow more room for polys? Probably, right?

[mike0006]

^ Most definitely

[dougt]

Mac Pro 2.66 Xeon 2 gigs of Ram running Boot Camp XP Pro:
Single: 3.347
Multi:1.41
Multithreading resulted 57.8% speed increase.

[Penarow]

Single Thread=4.185997
Multi Thread=2.555

Multithreading resulted in 38.9% speed increase.

Also, can anyone tell me how to use or set up multithreading?

[johnfnoo]

mine:
amd64 4000+, 2.4Ghz.
nvidia 7800 gtx 256mb
windows xpx64


single thread = 4.982
multi thread = 4.972
Multithreading resulted in 0.2% speed increase.

Multithreading is recommended for this system.

I'm not sure why it is recommended, to my knowledge there is no hyperthreading in my machine. Does the x64 windows make a difference, obviously not a considerable one.

JF

[kelvin273]

Hello
Here ist my benchmark for Z3 installed on a Dell490,Xeon5160(2,66GHz),8gRAM,WinXP64.


http://www.zbrush.de/images/uploaded4/user_img-wUa5n4BK9V_Z3-Performance-test.jpg


-Z3 is running as 32bitApp though... Shouldn't it be installed automaticly as 64bit app? :confused:
How can i get ZB3 to run as 64bit Software to take advantage of more than 2gig of RAM?

Cheers
kel
.

[mouse_art]

Just crank up your memsettings, and you will be surprised..

[CubePusher]

Core 2 Duo E6600@3.2Ghz

BFG 8800 GTX (768mb)

2ghz Corsair Dominator

untitled.JPG

[yuriytb]

results on my 3.06Ghz Pentium 4 with HT, 1 gig ram, Nvidia 6600 256mb

Single thread=7.481
Multi thread=6.328

Speed increase IS reccomended=15.4% increase

[phudgey]

3.0ghz pentium 4
2gb ram
nvidia quadro fx 3500 (256mb)

http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/6581/benchbt1.jpg (http://imageshack.us/)

Single: 5.190918
Muliti: 4.174072

[BCEmcke]

Single Thread=6.167999
Multi Thread=3.915998

AMD 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
1 Gig RAM
NVidia GeForce 6600

[tez]

I asume lower values are better in this test?

[BCEmcke]

I asume lower values are better in this test?Yes, the lower the better. But I have no clue what the numbers are refering to. :confused:

[Carsten Lind]

Single=6.125
Multi Thread=2.925
Multithreading results in 52.2% speed increase

iMac Core Duo 2.0
Windows XP Pro on Bootcamp 1.2

[David H]

Z2 and Z3 benchmarked on the same computer. Laptop Pentium M 2GHz (dothan) and 2GB of RAM.

zb2_bench.jpg (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:zb_insimg%28%27%27,%27zb2_bench.jpg%27,1,0%29 )
zb3_bench.jpg (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:zb_insimg%28%27%27,%27zb3_bench.jpg%27,1,0%29 )

[QuickTime]

P4 3.2G no oc
915PGN
512x2 ddr400=1G
8600GTS 675/2000
windows2003 sp1

[Mactabilis]

before i post my results.. i would just like to note that I built this pc back almost 3 years ago... spending under 1300(canadian)... so I apolagize to those who spent more getting worse results :P

Pentium 4 3.0Ghz Prescott HT (1 core!!! 1!!!!)
single Thread 5.661011
multi thread 4.615997

18.4% speed increase with multithreading

2gigs DDR2 dual channel Corsairs

resultsMike.jpg (http://javascript%3cb%3e%3c/b%3E:zb_insimg('','resultsMike.jpg',1,0))

[Aumakua]

Single Thread=4.592999
Multi Thread=1.479
Multithreading resulted in 67.699997% speed increase.

Dual Xeon 5140 (2.33 dual core)
4 gigs ram
Geforce 7900GTX
Raptor 150/10k rpm hd
Win XP Pro 32bit

[masterchief]

mine:

Gateway notebook 17in widescreen
nVidia GS 7900 w/256 megs video memory
Centrino 2.16GHz Core2 Duo
4gigs ram


Single Thread = 3.835999

Multi Thread = 2.272995

Multithreading resulted in 40.7% speed increase

Multithreading IS recommended for this system



1. What is significance of these results????
2. How to verify that multithreading is configured????


regards,
William

[Mactabilis]

right above the test button you will see multiDraw and MultiRender
if it is highlighted yellow it is active, it uses multithreading for when you work and render, improving performance

[masterchief]

cool....

what mem settings can be adjusted to obtain varying results????

[Mactabilis]

from what im seeing it looks like the more physical ram you got, the happier Zbrush becomes :)

first setting to play with is the auto-compact memory, if you have the ram that you know is available, setting this higher, (i suggest not exeeding 70% of your total ram) default is 256

the other setting to improve performance is QtransThreshold, if you have a lot of high res models that lag, just set this lower, its what makes your model step down detail while moving

[Giantsun]

Q6600@3Ghz
4 Gb gskill 4-4-3-5 HK

zbperf.JPG

[voller]

Single = 3.147
Multi = 1.222

% increase = 61.099998

Dell Precision PWS690
Dual Xeon X5355 2.66 (8 cores)
4 gigs ram (2.75GB used)
XP 32

How many cores does ZBrush 3 take advantage of?

[blackSTAT1k]

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b270/blackstat1k/zbrush_spec.jpg

Pentium(R) D CUP 3.40ghz
3.00 GB RAM

dang, thats pretty good and my computer is OLD! haha

[daprato]

Hi All, It's been a long time...
Here is a quick link to a Youtube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geb8EeTmC2g)that I recorded to test my new Intel Quad Core 2.4.

It's basically the ''demohead.ztl'' with 6 subdivisions. Arround 3,650,000 polys.

This Quad core run MUCH more FASTER than my last AMD dualcore.
I suggest to every artist to buy one, it's so fast compared to the other cpus. I'm running it on windowsXP 64bits, not sure if this bits increasing help really, will see.....

The speed is practically realtime, only when there's wait time the Camstasia clamped them, pretty much real speed.

*Just a test, that's ugly, lol
*** Click on the img to go to my Youtube Video ***
http://img490.imageshack.us/img490/4996/01io2.jpg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geb8EeTmC2g)
http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/8729/02ne2.jpg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geb8EeTmC2g)

[camillo]

Hi,

Here is the result on my Toshiba notebook with an Intel Centrino Duo T7600@2.33GHz with 2 Gb Ram - Vista Ultimate 32bits:

Single Thread=3.816
Multi THread=2.355

Multithreading resulted in 38.2% speed increase

[duffman999]

Intel Q6600 2.4GHz
2GB DDR2 800MHz

Single: 3.364990
Multi: 1.438049
57.2% increase

Yay for the new rig!
z3_benchmark.jpg

[kelvin273]

Wow
Lots of benchmarks with Multithreading below 2. This is great!
Interesting though would be a benchmark of an Apple Mac (pro) running ZB3.1 on XP64 or XP32 via parallel desktop.
Anyone out there with this configuratiuon?

Cheers
kel

[LeoAMD]

AMD 64 x2 dule core 2.21 ghz
2 gb ram
single_5.559
multi_3.455994

[mcclane]

single - 3.32
multi - 1.43


q6600 quad 2.4ghz (Go)
4gb ram (xp though so only really ~3)

[cookepuss]

Been a while since anybody posted to this thread. Figured I'd just toss on my scores.

Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 2.83 GHz, 8GB RAM, Vista Ultimate x64

[ambient-whisper]

thats a nice score. i was thinking of upgrading to one of the new q9300 procs, or 9450. its nice to see the quads getting such scores.
it also appears that zbrush only scales well up to about 4 cores, and then levels off. still more cores would be so nice for rendering as well.

[tez]

Iv just recently built my system, Im running Vista ultimate 64 with 4GB of ram.
My system is water cooled and clocked at 3.5ghz for 24/7 running.

speed2.jpg

[iatriki]

Pentium4 1.5 GBRAM, 2.8GHz, WindowsXP 32bit :( No multithingie for me

thrd.jpg (http://javascript%3cb%3e%3c/b%3E:zb_insimg%28%2793937%27,%27thrd.jpg%27,1,0%29 )

[It's Alive!]

How do you do this?

I got 8 gigs G-Skill DDR2 @ 800 MHZ
Q6600 Quad 2.4
GTX8800
64 bit Vista


Zbrush 3 would hang up and randomly crash on me. I pointed a boxfan at the mobo, and it hasnt locked up once. I think my system got too hot before I did this.

[kelvin273]

Today I got my new quadcore 5365


It's Alive
simply go unter > preferences tab > performance and click on the test multithreadbutton.

Dell490_Xeon5365_8g.jpg

[Erik Heyninck]

Acer 9800 laptop with dualcore centrino 1.6, 2GBRam and XPPro:

single 5.909
multi 3.554

[HaloAnimator]

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4ghz
4GB DDR2 Corsair DHX
nVidia 8800gt

Performance in Zbrush

Single Thread: 3.5498
Multithread: 1.623821

Multithreading resulted in a 54.5% speed increase

Multithreading IS reccomended for this system

[daprato]

System :

Asus P5K-E
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2400Mhz
4096MB OCZ PC2-6400 (DDR2 @ 800Mhz)

Stock : CPU @ 2400Mhz, FSB @ 1066Mhz, MEM @ 800Mhz
CPU2400 FSB1066 RAM800.gif (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:zb_insimg%28%27108774%27,%27CPU2400%20FSB1066 %20RAM800.gif%27,1,0%29)


CPU @ 2800Mhz, FSB @ 1400Mhz, MEM @ 700Mhz
CPU2800 FSB1400 RAM700.gif (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:zb_insimg%28%27108775%27,%27CPU2800%20FSB1400 %20RAM700.gif%27,1,0%29)


CPU @ 3000Mhz, FSB @ 1500Mhz, MEM @ 750Mhz
CPU3000 FSB1500 RAM750.gif (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:zb_insimg%28%27108776%27,%27CPU3000%20FSB1500 %20RAM750.gif%27,1,0%29)


CPU @ 3120Mhz, FSB @ 1560Mhz, MEM @ 780Mhz
CPU3120 FSB1560 RAM780.gif (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:zb_insimg%28%27108777%27,%27CPU3120%20FSB1560 %20RAM780.gif%27,1,0%29)


At 3120Mhz the system is still stable, but 3000Mhz is the the perfect setting for systems with the stock heatsink coupled with a rear fan. So, those processors have a lot of potential :)

I will make more tests...

[tez]

Thoes Q6600s clock very well. I have mine at 3.6ghz running 24/7, in fact im rendering while im typing this now. On stock fan I had a safe 3.4ghz before heat was becoming a issue. On water its where it is now and running at a low 38c. Im getting a multithreaded result of 1.03.

[Erik Heyninck]

Q9450 at 2.66GHz
4GB Corsair Twin2X 6400C5DHX
Gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6
Vista HP 64bit

Single thread 2.807
Multi thread 1.242

or 55,7% of speed increase

Guess I could overclock, having two large case fans, but for the moment I am more that happy with what I have, even more when I remember where I came from: ( dual centrino 1.6 and 2GBRam: single 5.909, multi 3.554 )

[pming]

Hiya.

I got the same as Erik, above...then again, it looks like we have almost identical systems! :eek:

Intel Quad Core Q9450 @ 2.66gHz
4GB Corsair ram
Windows XP Pro

Single = 2.82
Multi = 1.23

:)

[tez]

Q9450 at 2.66GHz
4GB Corsair Twin2X 6400C5DHX
Gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6
Vista HP 64bit

Single thread 2.807
Multi thread 1.242

or 55,7% of speed increase

Guess I could overclock, having two large case fans, but for the moment I am more that happy with what I have, even more when I remember where I came from: ( dual centrino 1.6 and 2GBRam: single 5.909, multi 3.554 )Iv overclocked all my computers, some where better than others. This chip has by far been the easyest and the best ratio iv got on a chip.

For the fact that you have brought a Q9450 means you most likly didnt have overclocking in mind when you got it, so make the most of its stock speeds as you have paid for them. Be intested to se what difference the extra cache makes in performance. Your chip will go 3ghz without a sweat, they dont normaly go any higher than a Q6600 though. It certainly was a nice jump from where you was at.

[Mind Symbion]

Specs:

- Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
- Corsair DDR2 3Gb RAM
- NVidia EN8800GT 1Gb
- Window Vista Pro 32bit

Multi threading test results:

- Single thread = 3.299011
- Multi thread = 1.439011
- Multitheading resulting in 56.299999% speed increase.
- Multithreading IS recommended for this system.

[LeX Soares]

- Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
- DDR2 4Gb RAM
- NVidia 9600GT 512mb

Single Thread= 3.375999
Multi Thread= 1.468

Multithreading resulted in 56.5% speed increase.

Multithreading IS recommended for this system.

[jjvdb15]

single- 3.2986996

multi thread- 1.389999

intel core 2 quad, 4GB ram

[--E--]

Anybody here got a Ci7 CPU that they can post benchmark results on? I am very curious how it does in ZB :D

[arazon]

Single = 2,973
Multi = 0,966

Multithreading performance = 307%

Multithreading is recommended for this system

mac pro 8 core 2,8GHz 8 Gigs of ram

[M i c h e l]

http://imagepoststop.com/out.php/i10_ZBrushOSX001.jpg

mac pro 8 core 3GHz 9 Gigs of ram

[Allminoxy]

Hey Guys, I don't have a Core I7 myself, but a friend of mine just build a rig with a 920 in it. I've been thinking of building a Nehalem rig myself, so I persuaded my friend to install Zbrush 3.1 and run the benchmark so I could see the results. It's safe to say I was pleasantly surprised.

His Rig:

I7 920 @2.66 GHz
6 GBs DDR3-1066
AMD Radeon 4850 (overclocked 1 gig version)
Windows XP 64

[Giantsun]

The Mac 8 core machines are really not impressive at all, maybe some problem with memory timings? not scaling well on 8 procs on a mac? cant believe a 8 core mac is being blasted by a q6600 rig...weird. Are these under emulation?

Now that i7 rig...with some new 1600Mhz 8-8-8-21, or the 2000Mhz modules coming soon and some overclock, that thing will fly...

Anyways, and most important, have a happy new year, then zbrush some more. ;)

[--E--]

wow 0.88 for the multi thread! I think that might be the new king. Anyone have a setup that can beat that?

CI7 FTW!

[skullbeast]

heres mine, its not even that I know what this means but I thought I would chime in to learn something.

multithread2.jpg

[Cadmium77]

Threaded; 1.415

[Cadmium77]

What the hell are you running E? :eek:

Is your computer on E?

[skullbeast]

Cadmium77 - please explain yourself. I am interested in what you have to say.

[Cadmium77]

Cadmium77 - please explain yourself. I am interested in what you have to say.E said he was running .88. I'm running 8 3 gigahertz cores with 8 gigs RAM and a Radeon HD 4870 X2 and getting 1.415. I'd like to know what kind of monster rig he's getting that kind of rating on..

[tez]

Hey Guys, I don't have a Core I7 myself, but a friend of mine just build a rig with a 920 in it. I've been thinking of building a Nehalem rig myself, so I persuaded my friend to install Zbrush 3.1 and run the benchmark so I could see the results. It's safe to say I was pleasantly surprised.

His Rig:

I7 920 @2.66 GHz
6 GBs DDR3-1066
AMD Radeon 4850 (overclocked 1 gig version)
Windows XP 64
He must have overlocked that somwhat to get them results, either way, nice, very nice, was thinking of building a system based on the i7 920 myself.

Im getting 1.03 threaded, and thats with my system at 3.5ghz on a q6600.

[nebular]

34,4 speed increase for multi, but just 4.120998 (whatever that means)

Old and cheap Athlon 64 X2 3600+ with 3 gigs of ram. Enough for 9 mil of polys. I will hopefully make an update in incoming months...

[--E--]

Oh no I am not getting 0.88. I was referring to Allminoxy post. He has a CI7 920
(http://member.php?u=138598)

[coalmarchtom]

zbrush-bench.jpg

Mac Pro 8 core, 2.8Ghz, 6GB ram (4 dedicated) stock ATI graphics card.

[Allminoxy]

He must have overlocked that somwhat to get them results, either way, nice, very nice, was thinking of building a system based on the i7 920 myself.

Im getting 1.03 threaded, and thats with my system at 3.5ghz on a q6600.Hey Tez, nope, it's not overclocked in the slightest - just a core I7 @ 2.66 GHz. I understand your reaction though, I had the same one when I saw the results. Needless to say, my next rig will be a Nehalem.